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I've decided to stop being quite such a gloomy sod and count some blessings for a change.  Good things I've thought of recently as far as the dyke community goes, are Ellen Degeneres' seemingly never-ending and meteoric rise to fame – her own talk show, judge on American Idols, Cover Girl contract – and this is the woman who got married to a woman in a dress, while wearing a suit.  Then there's Kate Clinton.  OK she's not overly well-known in South Africa, but in 2006 she celebrated her 2...

It's very freaking disheartening that people seem so incapable of changing their minds at times.  I was watching The Ellen Show - an episode which was made before the USA elections (it must have travelled Africa overland) and the gorgeous Ellen Degeneres was talking to John McCain about gay marriage being overturned in California.  In his usual smooth way, he referred, more than once, to their "respectful disagreement" about gay marriage, because "I believe marriage to be a unique institution...